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By Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation’s largest…

By Amy Simonson, Jennifer Feldman, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Maine Capitol Police screener Craig Donahue was returning from his…

By Aya Elamroussi and Mark Morales, CNN Award-winning author Salman Rushdie is awake and “articulate” in his conversations with…

By Mark Morales, CNN The Manhattan neurologist recently convicted of sexually assaulting, abusing and raping six of his patients died by suicide at…

By Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN The son of a man suspected of killing at least two men in a recent spate of killings that terrorized…

By Jason Kravarik, CNN A former Los Angeles County fire captain walked off the witness stand three times during testimony Monday while being…

By Claire Colbert, Bill Kirkos and Brad Parks, CNN Ex-Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao told a judge Monday they have…

By Claudia Dominguez, Ed Lavandera, Raja Razek and Caroll Alvarado, CNN The suspect in a shooting that killed a 43-year-old coach during a weekend…

By Casey Tolan, CNN When Bob and Debbie Smith signed up for flood insurance years ago, they never expected the storm that transformed the little…

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A New York City taxi driver was killed while chasing after passengers who attempted to rob him in…

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN Famed author Salman Rushdie is recovering at a hospital after he was repeatedly stabbed on stage Friday in front of a New…

By Amanda Jackson and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Three people were injured in a shooting in the parking lot of the Six Flags Great America amusement park…

By Amir Vera and Claudia Dominguez, CNN One man is dead and four other people were injured early Sunday after a mass shooting ended a late-night…

By Andrew Torgan, CNN Did you go on a health kick during the pandemic? A lot of people did. And with millions suddenly working from home and gyms…

By Eric Levenson, CNN In the Supreme Court decision overturning a New York gun law, the three liberal justices opened their dissent by citing data…

By Tina Burnside, CNN A man was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into a crowd Saturday evening in Pennsylvania, killing one person and…

By Paradise Afshar, CNN Two people died after a small plane crashed into a building in Illinois on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The pilot of…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Virginia Zoo welcomed the birth of an adorable, endangered ape — and they’re offering the public the chance to…

By Nouran Salahieh, Nicki Brown, Liam Reilly and Samantha Beech, CNN The renowned author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and continues…

By Rebekah Riess and Sara Smart, CNN A high-altitude meteor which blew up when it hit the atmosphere “is likely the best theory” for a…

By Paul Vercammen, CNN “When Jackie Robinson stepped on the field as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, for us Black folk, it was our Neil…

By Jason Kravarik, CNN Amid heavy fog and dense brush, eight members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department set off on foot up the…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN The family of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who disappeared from Fort Hood, Texas, in 2020 and was later found dead, filed a case…

By Claire Colbert, CNN About 133,000 people in the Greater Detroit area remain under a boil water advisory Sunday, a day after a leak was discovered…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN When teacher and recreational caver Rick Haley set out to help map a cave on August 6, he had no idea he would end up staging a…

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN An employment discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Delta Air Lines flight attendant says she was fired for posting an…

By Topher Gauk-Roger and Josh Campbell, CNN The captain of a San Diego vessel that sank in 2021 killing three of 32 smuggled migrants on board was…

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Behind glass-fronted cabinets in a University of Pennsylvania classroom, the skulls of Black Philadelphians whose remains…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Buying diapers and feminine hygiene products is about to get just a little bit easier for Coloradans. HB22-1055, also known as…

By Paul P. Murphy, Aya Elamroussi, Nicki Brown, Samantha Beech, Liam Reilly and Ray Sanchez, CNN The man suspected of stabbing renowned author Salman…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A Florida alligator was euthanized after bystanders spotted the reptile swimming with a knife stuck between its eyes, officials…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN For most people, winning the lottery is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But one Delaware man was lucky enough to win the…

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention and its entities on the heels…

By Andy Rose, CNN A Texas man died Thursday shortly after being convicted of child sexual abuse. The prosecutor said Edward Leclair was seen drinking…

By Paradise Afshar and Chuck Johnston, CNN At least 15 people were injured Friday evening after a rideshare driver carrying a passenger crashed into…

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN While authorities in Evansville, Indiana, work to determine what caused a deadly house explosion earlier this week, a…

By Natasha Chen, CNN Photos taken at the scene of the fatal helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others were…

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN The man being investigated for possibly planning to harm an Iranian journalist and activist was indicted on a firearms…

By Ray Sanchez, Adam Thomas, Kristina Sgueglia, Samantha Beech, Paul P. Murphy, and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Salman Rushdie — a celebrated…

Amy Simonson, CNN A woman was killed on Wednesday after being struck by a beach umbrella that was being blown in the wind in an unincorporated area…

By Rosa Flores and Peter Nickeas, CNN As details about failures of the police response to the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, have trickled out…

By Paradise Afshar and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A firefighter died while battling a wildfire in southwestern Oregon after he was struck by a tree,…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Josh Campbell, Brynn Gingras and Paul P. Murphy, CNN An armed man suspected of trying to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati field…

By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Muhammad Syed, the suspect arrested this week in connection with killings of two Muslim men in Albuquerque,…

By Amir Vera and Maria Cartaya, CNN A South Carolina judge revoked bond Thursday for Curtis Edward Smith, the man accused of shooting disgraced…

By Paul P. Murphy, Josh Campbell and Brynn Gingras, CNN An account bearing the name of Ricky Shiffer, the man authorities say they killed after he…

By Chuck Johnston and Emma Tucker, CNN On the five-year anniversary of a violent White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city is…

By Chuck Johnston, CNN New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella says that investigators have concluded from biological evidence that Harmony…

By Josh Campbell, Brynn Gingras, Paul P. Murphy and Dakin Andone, CNN A law enforcement standoff with a man who attempted to breach the FBI’s…

By Michelle Watson, CNN A former Boston public high school dean and alleged Latin Kings recruiter pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering charges…

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When Frances Garrett lost her mentally ill daughter to police violence in 2014, she channeled her grief by demanding…

By Jade Gordon and Preston Fore, CNN A city council in Alabama has voted to dissolve its three-member police department after the assistant chief…

By Jason Kravarik, Natasha Chen, Amir Vera and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Vanessa Bryant walked out of court Thursday afternoon during testimony that…

By Nouran Salahieh and Paradise Afshar, CNN The man accused of fatally shooting two Muslim men in Albuquerque appeared in court for the first time…

By Claudia Dominguez and Michelle Watson, CNN The cause of the Evansville, Indiana, house explosion that left three dead and damaged at least 39…

By Faith Karimi, CNN Sesame Place has announced new measures to expand its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts following a class action lawsuit…

By Eric Levenson, Natasha Chen and Jason Kravarik, CNN A jury of six women and four men was selected Wednesday in Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Yaser Abdel Said was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of capital murder…

By Chris Boyette, CNN A man accused of shooting three people in a Dallas hair salon in May has been indicted on seven counts of aggravated assault…

By Dakin Andone, CNN The pitcher for the Texas East Little League team hung his head, clearly upset after his last pitch hit the 12-year-old Oklahoma…

By Taylor Romine, CNN A 75-year-old man was arrested last week and charged in the 1982 rape and murder of a teenage girl in California after DNA…

By Nouran Salahieh and Christina Maxouris, CNN Hundreds of tips poured in after Albuquerque police sounded an alarm about the shooting deaths of four…

By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Christina Maxouris, CNN Authorities have arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed as a suspect in the killings of two…

By Mark Morales, Amir Vera, Maria Santana, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristina Sgueglia and Zenebou Sylla, CNN More migrants continued arriving in New York…

By Chuck Johnston, CNN A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making advances…

By Nick Watt, CNN Across Tennessee, pitching a tent on public land outside of designated camp sites is now a felony offense. Tennessee is the first…

By Stella Chan, CNN Friends, family and authorities are scrambling to find 16-year-old Kiely Rodni after she disappeared following a campground party…

By Omar Jimenez, CNN The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners in Minnesota on Tuesday approved a nearly $1.5 million settlement agreement for eight…

By Dakin Andone and Chuck Johnston, CNN The family of Gabby Petito has submitted a $50 million claim against the Moab, Utah, Police Department,…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Photographs by Bryan Anselm/Redux for CNN Kayla Slone hops out of the bed of her husband’s pickup truck as it stops in…